Which Rahman are you?
Eight taps, six kinds of Rahman sound. Find yours, then share it.
Who sings for Rahman?
Watch his singers rise and fall across 34 years, from SPB and Chithra to Arijit and Shreya.
What is in a Rahman song?
Song DNA: the microtones, the talam, the scale and the notes he leans on, for 1,965 songs.
Does he sound different for each director?
Mani Ratnam against Shankar against Imtiaz Ali, on six axes of sound.
Brothers in Music: The AR Rahman Edition
Swaroop and Sharan go through Rahman's films year by year, one album at a time. This site is the data behind the arguments.
Explore more
Every page on the site: the catalogue, the people, the sound, and how it all fits together.
Song Database
Every track, every singer, every album — searchable. Browse by album, search by singer or song name, discover the highest-energy or most acoustic tracks. Each song card shows singers, lyricists, audio features, and similar tracks.
Singer Directory
Cricinfo-style profile pages for every singer who has recorded 3 or more tracks with Rahman. Audio fingerprint, timeline, top collaborators, and full discography.
Lyricist Directory
Profile pages for every lyricist who has penned 3 or more tracks for Rahman. Audio fingerprint, timeline, top collaborators, and full discography.
Who collaborates with Rahman?
The voices, the directors, the lyricists — three decades of partnerships.
Singer-Collaborators Over Time
Hit play and watch Rahman's singer-collaborators race for the top spot, year by year. Toggle between singers and stars, or switch to a 5-year rolling window to see who's hot in each era.
Collaborator Timeline
Watch Hariharan and Mano dominate the 90s, then see Shreya Ghoshal and Benny Dayal take over. Toggle between a dot matrix and a worm chart showing cumulative tracks.
Director Timeline
Mani Ratnam scored 18 films with Rahman. Shankar's blockbusters cluster in the 2000s. See every director, every year, across 34 years.
Lyricist × Singer
Who writes for whom? See which lyricist-singer pairings define Rahman's sound, from Vairamuthu's Tamil classics to Gulzar's Hindi poetry.
Singer Network
Which singers always show up together on Rahman's albums? See the clusters — voices that travel in packs across hundreds of tracks.
What does his music sound like?
Audio features from Spotify, visualized — energy, mood, tempo, and more.
Sound Over Time
Each album gets a radar chart showing its audio personality. Browse from Roja (1992) to today and watch the sound evolve.
Director Sound Profiles
Does Rahman write different music for different directors? Compare overlapping radar charts and see how Mani Ratnam's palette differs from Shankar's.
Song DNA
Every song's musical fingerprint — microtonal variation score, talam detection, scale analysis, and a piano keyboard heatmap showing which notes define each track.
BPM Analysis
How fast is Rahman's music? Most tracks sit between 100–130 BPM, but the range stretches from 46 to 217. See the tempo distribution and how it shifts over 3 decades.
Key & Mode Wheel
Which musical keys does Rahman favour? A circular chart of major vs. minor across all 12 keys. Click any segment to see the tracks in that key.
Audio Mood Map
Every Rahman song plotted on a scatter chart. Pick your own axes — energy vs. microtonal variation, valence vs. tempo — and explore 1,949 tracks.
Song Siblings
Pick any Rahman song and find the 3 tracks that sound most like it. Search by name and discover unexpected connections across albums and decades.
How does it all fit together?
Albums connected through shared singers — see the web of collaborations.